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Updated – Friday 25th July, 6.37pm
Saturday 27 July
BATH, Theatre Royal, Opera della Luna in Sweeney Todd: A Victorian Melodrama, 2.30 and 7.30.
Forum, Pop Princesses, 3pm.
Dyrham Park, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in Hamlet, open air, 6.30pm.
BEAULIEU,Abbey Church, Music at Beaulieu, Glyndebourne at Beaulieu, picnic in the meadows before the concert, 7pm.
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School Coade Hall, Dorset Opera Festival 50th anniversary, Under the Greenwood Tree, new opera by Paul Carr, 2pm: Madama Butterfly, 7pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Meyrick Park, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Disco Symphonic Spectacular, fireworks, 8pm.
BIC, Dance Promotors Association Summer Festival, to Sun
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Inside Out 2, animated film, 11am.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Disney’s Aladdin, to 11 August.
Old Vic, Dragons and Mythical Beasts Live, 11am and 2pm: Weston Studio, Brixton House and Iniative DKF in Is Dat You Yh?, love letter to Black British Culture, 8pm.
BROWNSEA ISLAND, Poole Harbour, Brownsea Open Air Theatre in Macbeth, to 9 Aug, alternate nights to allow for weather conditions, final season after 60 years.
CANNINGTON, Walled Gardens, The Pantaloons in The Merry Wives of Windsor, open air, 6pm.
CHARD, Guildhall, The Longest Day (1962) D-Day anniversary screening. MOVIOLA
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Highcliffe Charity Players in The Wedding Singer, 2.30 and 7.30.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Some Mother Do ‘Ave ‘Em, to 17 Aug.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Peacock, comedy, 7.30.
CROWCOMBE HEATHFIELD, Hartwood House, Taunton Thespians in Here Be Dragons, celebration of Somerset Myths and Legends, 7.30pm.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Folksy Theatre in Angelika Sprockett’s Pockets, open air, 2pm.
OBORNE, St Cuthbert’s Church, Oborne Fringe, blues, comedy, folk, Sherborne Youth Band, silent movies etc, to Tues:
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, The Devil Wears Prada, pre West End, with Elton John score, with Vanessa Williams, to 17 Aug, Mon-Sat 7.30 and mats: Drum Studio, The Tamaritans Theatre Co in Blackadder II, 2.45 and 7.45pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Inside Out 2, animated film, and 30/31 July: Fly Me to the Moon, and 30/31 July.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Stage ’65 in Philip Pullman’s Ghosts and Grimm Tales, 2 and 7pm.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Summer Play Festival, Richard Harris’s comedy Party Piece.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Pretty Woman – the Musical.
MAST, Luther, Live, The Luther Vandross Tribute.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Ranger School of Dance, Showtime, 2 and 7pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Sound and Vision, David Bowie tribute, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral, Somerset Chamber Choir, and Florilegium, cond Andrea Brown, Bach, Purcell, Praetorius, Handel, Tallis Spem in Alium, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Sarah Millican, Late Bloomer, comedy, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Motive8 in Disney’s Moana Jr.
Westlands, Owl Obsession, meet the owls, 11am to 2pm.
Sunday 28 July
BARNSTAPLE, Marwood Hill Gardens, Folksy Theatre in Angelika Sprockett’s Pockets, open air, 2pm.
BODMIN, Cardinham Woods, Woods Cafe Garden, Sun & Moon Theatre Co in The Winter’s Tale, open air.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Future Islands, indie rock.
FROME, Merlin ECOS Amphitheatre, Folksy Theatre in As You Like It, open air, 7pm.
OBORNE, St Cuthbert’s Church, Oborne Fringe, Caroline Kennedy, soprano, The Cabaret of Broadway, the Great American Songbook, 7pm.
STEEPLE LANGFORD, Cricket Ground, Illyria in The Hound of the Baskervilles, open air, 7pm.
WHITCOMBE, nr Dorchester, Manor and Barn, Summer Sunday with lunch and cabaret with Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes, from noon.
Monday 29 July
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Cillian O’Connor, My World of Magic, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Le Navet Bete in King Arthur, A Legendary Comedy, to Sat, 7, Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.
OBORNE, St Cuthbert’s Church, Oborne Fringe, Steve Knightly, singer songwriter, 7.30.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Summer Play Festival, Yasmina Reze’s God of Carnage, to Sat.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Inside Out 2, animated film, to 4 Aug, 11.30am.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Hard Miles, film, and Tues, 11am and 7.30pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, A Quiet Place: Day 1, film, and Tues, 11am, 2.30 and 7pm.
Tuesday 30 July
BATH, Theatre Royal, Heathers – the Musical, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, 96 Miles: For the 75%, film, in aid of suicide prevention charity Campaign against Living Miserably, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Ziggy Alberts.
CHARD, Forde Abbey, Folksy Theatre in As You Like It, open air, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Dune Part Two, film, 7.30.
DREWSTEIGNTON, Castle Drogo, Illyria in The Hound of the Baskervilles, open air, 7.30pm.
FEOCK, (nr Truro), Trelissick Gardens, Chapterhouse in Beauty and the Beast, open air, 6.30.
OBORNE, St Cuthbert’s Church, Oborne Fringe, Sherborne Youth Band, 6pm: A Night at the Silent Movies, Buster Keaton’s The General, with music by John Cuthbert, piano, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Andrew Scott in Present Laughter, filmed at the Old Vic.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Science Museum Live, and Wed.
Wednesday 31 July
AXMINSTER, Burrow Farm Gardens, Folksy Theatre in Angelika Sprockett’s Pockets, open air, 2pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, BBLOC in 42nd Street, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
EXETER, Rougemont Gardens, Miracle Theatre in Love Riot, open air, 7pm.
PENZANCE, Penlee Park Open Air Theatre, Illyria in The Hound of the Baskervilles, 8pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Western College Players in Glorious – The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, to Sat, 7.45, Sat mat 2.45.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Bikeriders, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
WASHAWAY, nr Bodmin, Pencarrow House, Chapterhouse in Beauty and the Beast, open air, 7pm
WELLS, Bishop’s Palace, The Pantaloons in Robin Hood, open air, 6.30pm.